Liam Grimshaw the Latest Manchester United Youngster to Join Preston North End

​Preston North End have formally completed the signing of 20-year-old Manchester United midfielder Liam Grimshaw, making him the third player to make the switch from Old Trafford to Deepdale in recent weeks after Sam Johnstone joined on loan and Ben Pearson followed for £100,000.

The versatile Grimshaw, who also spent some of his youth career as a centre-back, has signed a two and a half year contract and will wear the number 31 shirt for his new club.

A United player since the age of seven, Burnley-born Grimshaw never played for the club's first-team. Having spent the first half of this season on loan with Motherwell for whom he made 14 appearances in the Scottish Premier League, he's now ready to kick-start his senior career.

"This is a chance to get my career going," he told PNEFC.net. "It is great to be back home in Lancashire and I am looking to get settled and start to kick on with my career.

"I followed Ben's (Pearson) progress as well and it is the same situation - we have gone out and managed to play some league games and now we have got our moves."

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